Vermillion Public Library

Scott and Cherie Caulley, will be visiting the Vermillion Christian Church for the 10:30 Sunday Service July 27th. There will be a Pot Luck Dinner on Sunday. The public is invited to attend the Worship Service and bring a covered dish for the Pot Luck so they can enjoy an extended visit with the Caulley’s. Scott was a pastor of the Vermillion Christian Church in the 1990’s. Scott has been teaching and preaching in Germany for the past few years.

Ten Hotsie Totsie Red Hat Ladies and chauffeur Rex Flentie were in the Marshal County Fair Parade in Blue Rapids Sunday evening. They won 1st place in the Organization Category.

Seven Tops members weighed in Monday evening and five stayed for the meeting July 14th. Marylyn Wenzl earned the diet basket. We did well this week with a seven pound loss. Janet Ronnebaum read the article “Five Symptoms Never to be Ignored.”

Glen Isaman, Jim and Lois Jean Harper and Thelma Gaddis attended the Freiden Church Ice Cream Social Tuesday evening. Lois Jean and Thelma visited with some of their friends that they have traveled with while there.

Jim and Lois Jean Harper and Thelma Gaddis attended the 50th Wedding Anniversary dinner of Wayne and Bonnie Harper which was held at the Baptist Church in Winifred on Sunday.

Keith Berry and son Jonathan of Wamego visited Mable White on Tuesday.

Bill and Gayle White of Hiawatha, Clint White and Lisa Marthaler of Sabetha, Ruth Johnson, Nancy and Sara Sander, Ada Johns and John and Carole Warden were supper guest of Mable White on Wednesday.

Ruth Johnson, Nancy Zender of Bismarck, North Dakota and Sara Sander of Watertown, South Dakota visited with Mable White from Tuesday to Friday. Ada Johns spent the last three weeks with Mable. On Friday they all returned to their homes in Iowa and North Dakota.

The children attending the Vermillion Library Summer Reading Program enjoyed learning about the Butterfly last week. They wore butterfly wings and antennas during the afternoon and made butterfly books and a crepe paper butterfly to take home. The children also took home “Moth Juice” to hang in their trees to feed the moths and butterflies. The Milford Nature Center insect display will visit the Vermillion Library on Tuesday July 22, from 2:00 to 4:00. The talk and display is of interest to all ages and the public is invited to attend. July 29th will be the last day of the Library Summer Reading Program.

Kan-ed, Kansas State Library and the Regents Library Database Consortium Bring Databases to Kansas Schools, Libraries, Homes, and Hospitals (TOPEKA) – Kan-ed, a statewide information network administered by the Board of Regents, will provide academic, reference, and research database access for Kansas schools, libraries, homes and hospitals for another year.
The State Library of Kansas, a Kan-ed consortium member, negotiated the terms of the purchase with the database publishers. The databases will be available, free of charge, to anyone in Kansas using a computer with a Kansas IP through Quova IP authentication, to any user of the Kan-ed Empowered Desktop, or Kansan who has a Kansas State Library Card. The databases will be available beginning in August and will include:
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Worldbook Encyclopedia;
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Worldbook Advanced;
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ProQuest Nursing Journals;
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Heritage Quest;
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WorldCat;
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The Gale/Cengage package which includes Academic OneFile, General OneFile, Literature Resource Center, Chilton’s Auto Repair, Health & Wellness Resource Center, Alternative Health Module, Business & Company Resource Center and Profiles ASAP, Customer Newspapers, Gale Virtual Reference Library, Military & Intelligence, Nursing & Allied Health, Legal Trac, Religion & Philosophy, Professional Collection, Computer Database, and Informé; and
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The Ebsco package which includes Novelist, Ultra Online Package (UOP), Middle Online Package (MOP), Primary Online Package (POP) and includes K-12 specific products such as; Encyclopedia of Animals, ERIC, Health Source: Consumer Edition, MAS Ultra School Edition, Middle Search Plus, Newspaper Source, Primary Search, Professional Development Collection, and TOPICsearch.
“We are excited to provide these tools to Kansans in every corner of the state,” said Brad Williams, Executive Director of Kan-ed. “The continued inclusion of these databases to the Kan-ed network, and through a variety of other internet access points, supports our continuing efforts to offer the best internet applications and utilities to Kansas schools, libraries, and hospitals. We are especially grateful to the State Library of Kansas, the Regents Library Database Consortium, the Johnson County Library System, and the Topeka & Shawnee County Library. With the partnership efforts and successes of these consortium members, the Kansas digital revolution continues full-speed ahead.”

• Married:  Cards are out announcing the marriage of Allen Lee, formerly principal of the schools here, to Miss Ewing, of Peoria, Ill., next Tuesday.
• The 20 acre field of wheat belonging to Jim Thompson, a couple of miles west of town, was threshed out last week and yielded 520 bushels of as pretty grain as was ever raised, although the berry was rather small.  The wheat was threshed out of the stack and sold at once to the Hutchison mills.  If anybody knows about grain it should be Perry Hutchison, and he is quoted as saying that no better grain was ever raised here-about.  Advocate Democrat
• Married:  Ed S. Rose and Margaret Fuget were married at Holton, the 14 th.  They will make their home in Maple Hill, Kans.
• Dr. Pampel reports that the children of W.M. Ruby and Austin Fitch, who have been quite sick, are much better now.
• A baseball game is scheduled for Saturday after noon, at Frankfort, between Barrett and Irish Creek.
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Six *Tops *members weighed in and all stayed for the meeting Monday evening June 30th. Marylyn Wenzl earned the diet basket and she lost the most weight in June. We lost thirteen pounds in June. Martha Thompson had the program on “Loose Weight, Tastes Great.”

Ten people attended the July *Birthday Coffee* at Lee’s Cafe Wednesday morning July 2nd. Those having birthdays are Jack Boyle and Jim and Janet Cornelison.

Thirteen Hotsie Totsie Red Hat Ladies and Rex Flentie were in the 4th of July Parade Centeralia Friday morning. After the parade they went to the school for lunch.

Melvin and Hazel Broughman from North Carolina visited Mable White on Thursday.

Thirteen *Hotsie Totsie Red Hat* ladies held their regular monthly meeting at Lee’s Cafe Saturday morning, July 5th. We had a guest, Berniece Ronnebaum, from Centralia. We plan to attend the Blue Rapids Fair Parade July 20th, also the Seneca Parade July 27th. September 6th we will go to Robinson for a cowboy supper. Marilyn Petry, Joan Dannels, Jan Bergman and Marylyn Wenzl furnished snacks. The next meeting will be August 2 at Lee’s Cafe.

Joy and Steve Ensley and Hallie, Cameron, and Carter Beardsly of Ames, Iowa, and Ron and Lacy and Hanna Cornelison from Leonardville visited Bob and Tim Lee and Jim and Janet Cornelison over the weekend.

Glen Isaman went to Sandy and Kenneth Vernon’s home for 4th of July dinner.

Bill and Audrey Broxterman celebrated their 25th Wedding Anniversary by holding an “Open House” at the Centralia Community Center for their immediate family and their children. Those attending were Brad, Kim and Mason Beckenhauer from Grandview Missouri, Curt, Tonya, Brianna and Trey Beckenhauer along with Dustin and friend Britney from Lincoln Nebraska, Bill’s brothers and families attending were Ralph and Darlene, Bob and Ann, Tom and Artis, Dick and Sharon, Charlie and Rita,Jerry, Connie, Paul and Diane, Betty and Gary, Pat, Joyce and Stacy Buessing. Bill’s sisters and families attending were Kay Mitchell and Anna, John, Cindy, Wayne and Alma, Elsie Becker and Lloyd and Marty, Sister Anna Marie and Sister Jean from Concordia, and Mary and Linus Holthaus and their children and families. Curt and Tonya Beckenhauer served as greeters for the celebration. Marty and Lloyd Becker, Elsie Becker, Kay Mitchell and Mary Holthaus assisted with the reception table. Linus Holthaus and his children and grandchildren provided the entertainment by singing several fun songs. The afternoon began with a noon meal, for the immediate family, catered by the Corn Crib of Corning. Approximately 125 people attended the event.

• John Wynn will make a balloon ascension at Down, Kansas, July 27.
• Born:  to the wife of Marion Crouse a son, Tuesday, July 19.  Dr. H.L. Bullard was the attending physician.
• Born:  G.W. Duffy became the father of his second pair of twins, Monday morning.  They weighed 7 lb. each and were both boys.  Mrs. Duffy is getting along nicely.  Dr. Pampel says all concerned are doing nicely.
• Born:  to Mr. and Mrs. John Harper this Friday morning, a 12 lb. son.  Dr. H.L. Bullard was the attending physician.
• Born:  A bouncing baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Witham, last Sunday morning.  Dr. Bullard reports mother and child doing nicely.
• J.E. Kluckner, Thos. DeWalt, Walter Dean, and Lon Rudolph, of Vliets, attended the Woodman camp here, Monday evening.
• We desire to express our heartfelt thanks to the dear friend who so kindly assisted in performing the last sad rites of our dear mother.    Mrs. Liddie Woodworth, Chas. Clark.
• Died:  word reached here, Saturday, that the house of J. Allm, near Alta Vista, Wabannsee county, had been burned and that three children perished.  Geo. Howard, a brother-in-law went down and found the report to be only too true.  Children aged 1-½, 4, and 9 had been burned to death, and ones aged 6 and 11 were badly burned.  The parents were not at home when the fire started.
• Last Sunday, near Frankfort, A.D. Strattan’s little three year old boy was in a very serious accident.  The little fellow fell into the wheel of the wagon, his head going between two spokes, and he was carried nearly once around before the horse could be stopped.  If the wheel had gone two feet farther, he would have been badly injured, as one of his legs was caught under the bed of the wagon.  He was sore for several days but he is all right now.
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• Following are extracts from a letter from Sam White to J.J. Calnan, dated July 6th, 1898:
• I don’t know for sure when we leave for Manila but the report is current that we will leave between the 10th and 15th.  The whole regiment was out on parade the fourth.  There were about 10,000 troops all told.  We marched the streets of Frisco about 6 hours, marching about 15 miles; then we came back to camp and the colonel gave us a leave of absence until 11 o’clock that night.
• I hope that we get away from here very soon.  The (army) is getting all equipments.  The weather is so cool here that a man can wear an overcoat in the middle of the day and at night we have a fire in our tents; once in a while it gets up to 80 degrees. 
• We have fine parks around here.  The soldiers are admitted free even to the zoological gardens and some street car lines will carry soldiers free of charge.  The people of San Francisco are very kind and especially the ladies of the Red Cross society.
• We can get away from camp only 3 hours a day and then only a limited number.  Myself and friend went down to Chinatown the other night and it was quite a treat. 
• There were two boys died in our regiment and they were buried with military honors.  Give my regards to all the boys.  (Sam White)

• Born:  Dr. L. Pampel reports that a fine boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. John Richards, last Saturday, July 9th.
• Married:  At the home of Mrs. Mary Gamber, in Alton, occurred a quiet wedding at 6 o’clock on the morning of Monday, July 4, at which time her amiable and accomplished daughter, Miss Carrie E. Gamber, was given in marriage to Mr. Fred W. Arnold, the county’s highly popular register of deeds.  The ceremony was performed by Rev. G.W. Sargent, pastor of the Alton Congregational church.  Only a few relatives witnessed the affair.  After partaking of a wedding breakfast the bridal couple boarded the train for a trip covering a period of three weeks.  They went direct to Nashville, Tenn., to attend the Christian Endeavor international convention, and then expect to visit other points of interest in the South.  Upon their return to Osborne they will occupy the Cliff Weeks’ residence, corner Fifth and Court streets, where they will be at home to their friends about Aug. 1st.
• Mr. Arnold is one of the best young men on earth.  He is filling his first term as register of deeds to the satisfaction of the whole public.  Congratulations, hearty and sincere, are extended to Mr. and Mrs. Arnold.
• Don’t miss the Salem Chautauqua this session; it will be better than ever.  The dates are July 30 to August 7, inclusive.  Organize a tenting party among your friends and attend the whole session.
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• Born:  to Mrs. W. M. Ruby, July 1st, a girl.  Dr. L. Pampel was the attending physician.
• Died:  Mrs. Richard Clark died at Kansas City, the first of the week, and is expected that her remains will be here for interment beside her husband who died about twelve years ago.  She is the mother of six girls and one boy, one of her daughters, Mrs. Sidney Woodworth, lives near here.  She and her husband took a homestead near J.O. Shaffer’s place in 1870.  After his death she lived in Arkansas City and since a year ago, Kansas City.
• Walter Warren, wife, and baby came from Hutchison to spend the Fourth.
• Mrs. Dowdy, Mrs. Jas. McWilliams sister, returned to her home, Tuesday.
• Mrs. J.P. Miller, of Blue Rapids, visited at Mrs. Fisher’s Tuesday evening.
• Miss Myrtle Arnold went to Concordia, Tuesday, to spend a week with parents and friends.
• Prof. E.P. Evans and wife, of Corning, spent the Fourth here, the guests of Dr. Pampel and family.
• Lost:  A black silk cape between Vermillion and Centralia on July 4th.  Leave at this office and receive reward.
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